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At todays VMworld US there are a number of NSX announcements as NSX grows it’s capabilities and features and raises the bar for SDN. Some of of the announcements at todays VMworld US conference in Las Vegas will be around a new version of NSX-T called NSX-T 2.0, VMware Cloud on AWS which provides a service that delivers a seamless extension for vSphere customers into AWS and NSX Secure Networking and the the ability for network virtualisation and security for native AWS workloads.

Firstly if you don’t know what NSX-T is then I would recommend you read the overview of it here or register for session NET1510BU . For version 2.0 there are a number of announcements, the high level such as:

Cloud-Native App Frameworks

VMs and Containers

CNI Plugin Integration for Kubernetes (K8s) /Pivotal Cloud Foundry

NSX-T PaaS /CaaS Integration

NSX integration with Kubernetes

NSX Container Plugin (NCP) for integration with PaaS with NSX Manager

Native Container Networking:

IP address per container / POD

Container Network integration with DC network via routing and BGP

Micro-segmentation – inter project and intra project isolation

Network and Security Automation – created as part of app deployment

Multi-tenant network topologies

Multiple Containers (PODs for K8s) in a VM (Container Host)

Support for vSphere and KVM

For VMware cloud on AWS there is an extensive amount of announcements and features about the service but for NSX in particular it is about centralised management, comprehensive visibility and enterprise-class security